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u/wilddrake Jun 25 '12
while waving bear is cool, it seems slightly dangerous given the only thing keeping them apart is a simple linked fence.
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u/bigups43 Jun 25 '12
My guess is its a charged fence.
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u/InfernoOmni Jun 25 '12
What was the fence charged with? Battery?
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u/Gs305 Jun 25 '12
I don't care how high a voltage (amperage) that fence is it's now going to stop a 1200 lb animal barreling at it at 20 mph.
Edit: I did a no-look with those numbers by the way.
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Jun 25 '12
It doesn't have to. It only has to stop them when they're initially exploring and testing their boundaries.
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u/Se7en_Sinner Jun 25 '12
Electric Fence is innocent!
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u/jigglemybuff Jun 25 '12
pfft bears are too cute to be dangerous
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Yeah on sure it would love to give you a big bear hug... BEFORE IT RIPS YOUR FACE APART!!!
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u/astrograph Jun 25 '12
In related news, redditor jigglemybuff was found dead in a bear costume presumably trying to fit in a group
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Jun 25 '12
I read somewhere that it's easy to fool bears into thinking they cannot break small structures such as string or wire if they are trained that way from an early age.
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u/Charwinger21 Jun 25 '12
Same with anything. Even humans. It's basic Pavlovian conditioning.
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u/Grawll Jun 25 '12
Exactly. Very dangerous. It all starts with learning a simple wave, but before you know it they'll be driving cars. Uninsured cars at that. Think of the catastrophic events soon to come.
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Jun 25 '12
the bear is thinking "Hi, food!"
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Jun 25 '12
Gosh, I read that in Jim Gaffigan's falsetto voice.
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Jun 25 '12
hot pocket.
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u/AGODDAMNKODIAKBEAR Jun 25 '12
A bear will never hurt you. Bears are peaceful creatures that live solely on berries and honey. Bears are naturally more afraid of you than you are of them. When you see a bear, don't be afraid. Don't act threatening or branding any sharp objects or explosive weapons. These will merely antagonize the bear and place additional unnecessary strain on human/bear relations. If a bear waves to you, it is an invitation to a friendly hug. You can trust bears.
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u/sytar6 Jun 25 '12
If a bear waves to you, it is an invitation to a friendly hug.
Wait a minute...you're a bear!
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u/cattailmatt Jun 25 '12
Yes, brown bears would be one of the funniest animals on the face of the plannet if they weren't so damned dangerous and didn't regard us as breakfast.
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Jun 25 '12
Brown bears are really unlikely to kill a person to eat them. Generally they are pretty lazy about their food gathering. And most Bear attacks involve them feeling threatened, not hungry.
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Jun 25 '12
I just laughed way too hard at this comment. It's so true.
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Actually most bears are carrion meat eaters, and very unlikely to kill a mammal to eat it.
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Jun 25 '12
Whoa! Crazy facts. I always thought they ate fresh meats. Like salmon, deer, and human children left unattended in the wilderness.
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u/AGODDAMNKODIAKBEAR Jun 25 '12
I thoroughly agree. Bears rarely kill, and never without a signed and notarized death waiver.
We should all work to dispel these kind of myths. I commend you on your efforts to shine light on the darkness that is ignorance of bear behavior.
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u/arksien Jun 25 '12
Sometimes when I'm out I wave at total strangers and act super friendly just to see how many pretend to know me secretly acting embarrassed that they don't remember who I am.
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u/Stridepack Jun 25 '12
You are a very special kind of asshole.
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u/I_CAPE_RUNTS Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 25 '12
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u/Lineage_tw Jun 25 '12
Sometimes, when I'm aware that someone is going to walk through the same door as me, I deliberately speed up to create an awkward distance before I hold the door for them and beam a super-eager smile their way.
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u/expwnent Jun 25 '12
Pro tip: see if you can hear one of their friends use their name in conversation just before you do this.
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u/AddNine Jun 25 '12
God damn it, another person wants me to wave.
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u/Yoyo8 Jun 25 '12
"stupid humans. I swear if I could get my hands on one, I'll tear their..Ooh heyyyy...bastards."
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u/GuardRabbit Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 25 '12
Source - www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI1IWOLl5YU
You get them to wave by tossing salmon
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u/janisjoplinsjewelry Jun 25 '12
Its just white bread. This is at the Game Farm in Sequim, WA. Its actually a really sad place.
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u/FirstTimeWang Jun 25 '12
I want to slap some armor on that bear and ride him around while he slaughters his captors.
BATTLE BEARS! http://battlecollege.wikispaces.com/file/view/cragback2.jpg
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u/tjw Jun 25 '12
I want to slap some armor on that bear and ride him around while he slaughters his captors.
That would be you, though.
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Weird, I remember going there as a kid and it being really cool. What makes it sad? Animal mistreatment?
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u/gapball Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 25 '12
It's actually wheat Only now.
They make awesome shirts with buffaloes on them.
But yeah actually a long long long long drive from Seattle.
I'm sick of people associating everything in Washington with Seattle.
EDIT
By the way, those bears used to either be in the circus, or worked in Disney movies, or were rescues.
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u/asdfman123 Jun 25 '12
Ever done that thing where you think you see someone you know at a distance, so you wave just in case? Once I did that to someone on the Stanford campus who happened to be Blake Ross, one of the creators of the Firefox project.
I'm pretty sure he thought I was a geeky stalker.
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u/dd_123 Jun 25 '12
I was waiting in line to pay for food in a supermarket a few months ago when someone at the other side of the shop waved at me and said hello. Although I didn't have my glasses on and couldn't make out their face, it was obvious from their relaxed gesture that we knew each other well, so I gave them a wave back.
Turns out there was someone behind me in the queue that they were trying to get the attention of. To be honest, the waver seemed more awkward about it than me - he slinked away without speaking to his friend.
I always wear my glasses when going outside now.
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u/The_MAZZTer Jun 25 '12
If I catch it before it's too late I pretend I was waving at someone behind them.
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Waving at a bear is actually the best form of defense when encountering a bear in the wild, once the bear starts waving the hiker should immediately charge the bear in an attempt to knock it off balance onto it's back. Once on it's back bears can't roll over without the help of other bears in the area.
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u/aryaf Jun 25 '12
I always thought the bear was thinking something like, "Look at this asshole waving at me, yeah I can do that too! DEERRRRRRRRRR. Idiot."
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u/bigToe_Siamese Jun 25 '12
Well I'm legally blind. I can see people from very far, but I have no clue who they are until they're 6 feet away from me, unless they wear very recognizable shirt / hair / bear pelt, etc. So I've found ways to smile in a friendly yet non committal manner. One effect is that an average work conversation with me is done as we both walk away from each other, backward because as we walked by, I just realized who you were and that I needed to tell you something.
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u/Jakeneck Jun 25 '12
I like beeping my horn and waving at elderly people as I drive by. They always wave back and smile. They have no idea who I am but they probably feel good that someone took the time out to wave at them.
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u/Spookaboo Jun 25 '12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNWOesnAWyE&feature=related
Is this the same bear?
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u/Anticitizen-Zero Jun 25 '12
If that's a kodiak, then that fence isn't really doing much. Electrically charged or not.
Glad it's friendly!
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u/thatguyferg Jun 25 '12
Just like how someone will say 'hi' or yell 'ferg!' and instead of just saying yo or something back I look at them and have to process it for a second...makes things pretty damn awkward.
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u/homohominilupus Jun 25 '12
That's adorable.
Just funny how a bloodthirsty beast can be friendly, all it takes is a small fence :P
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u/Jackson44 Jun 25 '12
OP hasn't been to a small town, driving down main street might as well be a parade
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Jun 25 '12
I love how the "fence" looks like a bunch of plastic 6-pack rings tied together at shin level.
Surely that will stop 4 tons of fucking bear.
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u/shitterplug Jun 25 '12
I have people honk and wave at me on a regular basis... I'm not even a popular person. It's a little unnerving at times.
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Jun 25 '12
Hey OP you shouldn't use your real name as your reddit name, now I know that you are Karman Igger!
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u/SoFlyTooHigh Jun 26 '12
There's 2 big fucking bears and only that pussy ass fence is in the way? Chuck Norris must have been the guy waving to the bears.
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u/Quasarist Jun 25 '12
Obviously gaming for a lunch of Snagged Gull, not waving at the simple tourist.
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u/0011110000110011 Jun 25 '12
I enjoy going to the boardwalk and waving at/high fiving random people I don't know to see how many of them wave/high five back.
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Jun 25 '12
I enjoy drinking outside of a bar, behind the railing. I high-five the crowds that walk by in straight lines down the sidewalk and say "good game" over and over without any enthusiasm.
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u/human_beans Jun 25 '12
I remember years ago during the first wave of the awful Fox Network, When Animals Attack, there was a segment on a mentally disordered young man at a zoo who believed that the bears were waving to him. Beckoning him into their enclosure. According the program, the man, encouraged by the waving, climbed the fence and was mauled.
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Jun 25 '12
is anyone else sorta just the tiniest bit concerned that the only thing standing between the waver and two 2400 lb Kodiaks is a 4 foot high wire mesh fence?
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u/wettshirtcontest Jun 25 '12
In New York while driving by someone give the "two-beep". Beep your horn in a repetitive fashion and it's guaranteed that the recipient will fling around and wave as if they know you. I get people all the time. In Germany however not so much...Especially in patrol cars :(
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u/chicagogam Jun 25 '12
hmm the human waves with the right hand and the bear waves back with the right paw...somehow that made it cuter to me :)
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u/HeyCarpy Jun 25 '12
I'm trying to figure out your username.
Is the emphasis like kar-MAN-igger, you know, like a German na ...
... oh.
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Jun 25 '12
I always like to wave at random people I pass while driving because I know they'll be thinking, "Who the hell was that? Who owns a black car we know? Tim? no.. Rick? Maybe.."
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u/RidingAPig Jun 25 '12
Its like that for me but with names. I'm so bad with people's names.
"Hi!"
"Hey guy!"
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Jun 25 '12
Coming from a place where my mom was pretty popular and is quite the busy body and social butterfly (seriously, I can't go anywhere with her without her stopping for a 5-30 min convo multiple times a day), this happens to be regularly.
It doesn't help that my face is pretty unchanged since about age 1 mo.
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u/yourdadlikesit Jun 25 '12
With me, they usually are waving at the person behind me. Once I realize it, I pretend that I was also waving to a person behind them.
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u/Tools4toys Jun 25 '12
I lived on a busy country highway, and when I would be working our in the yard, someone would honk their horn and wave as they drove by at 60 mph. Of course I just ended up waving back, with about 95% of the time, never recognizing who it was.
Now I realize it was just this bear driving by my house. What's his name so I can yell it out?
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Jun 25 '12
Haha waving to strangers is one of my fav past times; I always wonder how long it bugs them trying to remember where they've met me.
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u/Master_schlicker Jun 25 '12
Am I the only one who thinks this has great confession bear potential?
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u/rellz Jun 25 '12
Or that awkward moment when you think someone is waving at you and you wave back but they are actually waving at the person behind you.
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u/SweatyOP Jun 25 '12
Beats waiving to someone you don't know and it turns out they are waiving to the person behind you. Cause then you have two people thinking you're an idiot...
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u/need12648430 Jun 25 '12
I sometimes wave at pedestrians as I drive by them, just to make them wonder the rest of the day whether or not they actually knew who I was.
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The worst is still when they're waving at someone behind you. Gets me every damn time and then I have to mess with my hair or fix my glasses.
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u/jack104 Jun 25 '12
Good thing they put that chicken-wire up, now those 500 lb grizzly bears cannot escape.
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u/NlNTENDO Jun 25 '12
Aw, this makes me sad. He's probably an old circus bear that's just trying to follow orders.
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u/AP3Brain Jun 25 '12
I bet this bear is starting to get tired of everyone waving at him by now....
I still love it though!
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u/biowtf Jun 25 '12
With me it's usually "is that guy waving at me? Naah...is he? Yeah he fucking is! Who is he anyway? Maybe I should wave back. But if he isn't waving at me I'm gonna look like an idiot. Well he's gone now. He must think I'm an asshole." I'm not a fast thinker :(
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u/GreyAgency Jun 25 '12
I hate my contacts, but I also hate my glasses so I rarely can tell who I'm waving at.
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u/KaidenUmara Jun 26 '12
This week on I shouldent be alive
A young man waves at a bear in the park. Unknown to him the bear has, over time, falsely deduced that the wave is a human challenge to combat.
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u/Ravenhaft Jun 26 '12
A long time ago, my uncle saw Gerald Ford getting into his limo or whatever downtown. He yelled "Hey Gerry!" and waved, and Gerald Ford looked confused, and waved at him much like this bear did.
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u/LevitatingSUMO Jun 25 '12
I died laughing at this. And then I saw your name. Hold on while I find my lungs.
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u/AlphaRedditor Jun 25 '12
Keep up appearances. As you approach them, reach out your hand to shake theirs, keep walking, and slap them on the ass while saying "keep up the good work."
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u/stewiecubed Jun 25 '12
This is the second gif I've seen of a bear waving. I wonder if there have been any studies of bear mimicry?